In the autobiographical book Initials BB, memories by Brigitte Bardot, the former beauty icon and actress reveals in which film she bitterly regretted starring. It’s currently available on Prime Video!
During her career, Brigitte Bardot did not always make the right choices and she recognized this years later. If she still bites her fingers at having said no to this cult saga, the former actress and beauty icon also regrets having agreed to play in A lovely idiot, a film by Edouard Molinaro. The pitch of this comedy released in 1963? After being fired, Harry Campton, a bank employee of Russian origin, decides to become a spy in the service of the Soviets to get revenge. He is then tasked with recovering an important file from a member of the admiralty, Sir Reginald Dumfrey. Problem is, the shy and clumsy Harry soon discovers that Penelope, the pretty blonde with whom he fell in love a long time ago, works as a seamstress for Dumfrey’s wife…
How Brigitte Bardot came to play in A lovely idiot ?
As the main person concerned explains in her memoirs, she had read A lovely idiot a few months earlier in Méribel. “A story I found funny”she writes before adding: “It was rather corny to be honest, but at the time I fell in love easily with anything and anyone. I said the book was charming and the producers who had me work said so. beaten to buy the rights and set up the business.” A little remark thrown at the general public that they bitterly regret today!
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Why Brigitte Bardot considers A lovely idiot as “a youthful mistake”
Launched into the project, Brigitte Bardot did not take long before regretting “this cinematographic adventure which had nothing glamorous”. “I looked stupid as hell and lovely by chance.”, she laughs. If it does not call into question the work of the director nor that of the main actor, Anthony Perkins, “the film remains a youthful mistake that she classifies as ‘I would have been better off breaking my leg'”.
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